From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 06:55:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87y1uyju79.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87edx28cl1.fsf@disroot.org> <83y1v7w6eu.fsf@gnu.org> <2f302d1c3966849477b3@heytings.org> <83mtbiovzr.fsf@gnu.org> <83a67hq3l7.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtbhneht.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35811"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PsdaS4XD4oehZtEP9MyvTRib3/0= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 05 07:02:01 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oV4FE-00098v-FL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 07:02:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42700 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oV4FD-0004GL-IY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 01:01:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oV4DP-0003MY-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 01:00:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56778) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oV4DN-00007u-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 01:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oV4DK-00075G-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 07:00:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294731 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: >> It works, but looping over all the Unicode characters is >> very slow, so doing that at each startup would be >> unacceptable. If someone needs, I can show a simple code to >> be run by the user, once, on the Linux console, that would >> allow then to determine the codepoint ranges for which the >> U+FFFD (or any other) replacements are needed, so that >> users could run that code, and then put such customizations >> in their init files. > > That's the way I'd like it to work. I would not mind running > this again if the capabilities of the Linux console ever > change, Last time I heard anything about it work on it was disencouraged, I don't know if this was because they wanted to make Linux stronger on the desktop (this was before the smartphone era) or if they thought working on it would increase complexity and introduce bugs, and that would be bad since, as we heard in another post already, it is relied upon not just by Emacs powerusers but also for debugging when X fails ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal